Sunday, April 16, 2017

HAPPY EASTER!

HALLELUIA! The Lord is Risen. Heaven has been open to us. Sin
is destroyed! Alleluia! Satan’s power taken away from him. He will not be
victorious in turning us away from our God and Savior, unless, like Judas, we
do not seek His mercy and love.

Pardoned, forgiven, saved by God’s love for us and His mercy
toward us! Alleluiua!Pardoned by the
Lord’s love shown to us by Jesus’ obedience to the Father unto death. Alleluia!

Yet, for our sins was Jesus put to death! Alleluia, praise to
our Savior and Lord!

Every woman and man, every child and adolescent, has died
with Christ in baptism and will rise with Christ at the end of his or her time
here on earth. Alleluia.

Alleluia. O death, where is your sting! Death, for us, includes the resurrection, as it did for Jesus!

Sting of death, you have been dissolved into the joy of our
awaiting for Jesus to return to take us with Him! Alleluia!

Today, Jesus, said to the good thief on the cross, you will
be with me in Paradise. Jesus will say the same thing to you and I when we are
about to be released from death. Alleluia!